republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/acr-199.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to \"Parks Make Life Better!®\" Month."
description: "This measure would recognize the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians and would declare the month of July 2022 as \"Parks Make Life Better!®\" Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "ACR 199"
citation: "California ACR 199 (20212022)"
classification: ["concurrent resolution"]
subjects: ["\\\"Parks Make Life Better!\\\" Month."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-06-01"
last_action: "2022-08-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/692b94a3-3bb4-4ebf-aaae-b2bea695f912"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR199"
source_hash: "941e729c1519e8a8c1e0606980bd67ed3ad968a5192ea3be7ecd863087ad18ac"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California ACR 199 (20212022) — Relative to "Parks Make Life Better!®" Month.

This measure would recognize the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians and would declare the month of July 2022 as "Parks Make Life Better!®" Month.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **06/01/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR199&version=20210ACR19999INT)
2. **08/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR199&version=20210ACR19997CHP)
3. **ACR199** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR199)
4. **08/09/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220ACR199&version=20210ACR19998ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- ACR 199 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent ACR199 — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Bloom — coauthor (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rendon — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Valladares — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Voepel — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-06-01** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-06-02** From printer.
- **2022-06-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-06-16** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-06-20** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2022-06-30** From committee: Ordered to third reading. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-03** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-08** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4686.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2022-08-08** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-19** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2022-08-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 140, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/692b94a3-3bb4-4ebf-aaae-b2bea695f912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).